[Leaplist] Changing HDA5 permissions.

[William A. Mahaffey III]

Andy Lino wrote:

> I am running Ubuntu 7.04.
> I have a drive HDA5 that I would like to share on my network. When I 
> right click on the properties tab for the drive it shows ROOT and it 
> is greyed out. I see the computer in the GUI under Places >> Network.
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> I have edited the FSTAB file to show HDA5 as gid=disk,umask=0000 0 0
> I have done sudo chmod 777 /media/hda5
> I have done sudo chown andy:andy /media/hda5
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> None of the above has worked.
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> Does anyone have a suggestion?
>
> Thanks
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> Andy
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> The program said "Requires Windows 98 or better to run properly." So I 
> installed Linux.


Did you unmount the drive & *then* check the permissions of the 
mount-point ? They need to be OK *before* the HDD is mounted there ....

$0.02, no more, no less ....

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